When I go out Friday think im going punch & elbow someone in the face, my excuse will be Fellaini can do it. Being a Stoke fan it's been shocking how the media as a whole is actually laying the blame on us, then we have idiotic comments saying Stoke do it all the time; now forgive me but pulling & shoving in the box happens at every club in England. I do hope Saturday that EVERY incident of shoving & pulling (Stoke included) is deemed a penalty then we'll have they same idiots saying how it was a soft penalty & how the game has become a farce. If it was any other team rather than Stoke, Fellaini would be absolutely slaughtered by everyone.

Only reason he got a 3 match ban is because Halsey saw the other 2 incidents but didn't see them as even a foul!.

Then people wonder why us Stoke fans have the us vs the world mentality.

That's karma for you. Stoke have been clogging away for years under Pulis and have made referees in their games deem violence acceptable, especially now that opposition teams are starting to go out and match your lot in terms of physicality in order to level out the playing field. If you live by the sword, you die by it. I'm not saying it's right, but those niggly tactics have brought all of this about. These incidents will only stop when you shed your constant shirt pulling/vicious last ditch challenge tactics. It could take a while to get rid of that stigma.

That's karma for you. Stoke have been clogging away for years under Pulis and have made referees in their games deem violence acceptable, especially now that opposition teams are starting to go out and match your lot in terms of physicality in order to level out the playing field. If you live by the sword, you die by it. I'm not saying it's right, but those niggly tactics have brought all of this about. These incidents will only stop when you shed your constant shirt pulling/vicious last ditch challenge tactics. It could take a while to get rid of that stigma.

I love the rough & tumble & Stoke do have a reputation (an unfair one, if you look at the amount of yellow cards we've had the past few seasons), but the people who are critical towards us you then ask them do you watch Stoke play? 9/10 they say only on highlights and what the papers say. I have even see people say Stoke don't like it when others get rough with them but im sorry has any Stoke player come out & moaned about Saturday? and then Wilko gets completely clattered by Gardner a few weeks which could of been easily a red card these days, but back he gets up & they shake hands, most players nowadays would stay down & roll around on the floor, but once again very little is mentioned about it.

Take physicality away from football is the day football becomes a poorer game.